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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 52 3126 2855 1261 1119 121 7820

S.B. Moran publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by S.B. Moran between 1988 and 2022, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. S.B. Moran published across 35 years, from 1988 to 2022, averaging 3.5 papers a year. Output peaked at 12 publications in 2012. 3 of the 123 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1988 to 2022. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 12. Peak 12 publications in 2012. 1988: 1 publication 1989: 0 publications 1990: 0 publications 1991: 1 publication 1992: 3 publications 1993: 1 publication 1994: 0 publications 1995: 1 publication 1996: 4 publications 1997: 7 publications 1998: 3 publications 1999: 4 publications 2000: 4 publications 2001: 4 publications 2002: 3 publications 2003: 2 publications 2004: 3 publications 2005: 7 publications 2006: 6 publications 2007: 5 publications 2008: 3 publications 2009: 3 publications 2010: 6 publications 2011: 3 publications 2012: 12 publications 2013: 5 publications 2014: 10 publications 2015: 5 publications 2016: 3 publications 2017: 3 publications 2018: 3 publications 2019: 3 publications 2020: 2 publications 2021: 2 publications 2022: 1 publication
1988 2022

123 publications in total across all disciplines

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S.B. Moran: publications per year, 1988 to 2022
Year Publications
1988 1
1989 0
1990 0
1991 1
1992 3
1993 1
1994 0
1995 1
1996 4
1997 7
1998 3
1999 4
2000 4
2001 4
2002 3
2003 2
2004 3
2005 7
2006 6
2007 5
2008 3
2009 3
2010 6
2011 3
2012 12
2013 5
2014 10
2015 5
2016 3
2017 3
2018 3
2019 3
2020 2
2021 2
2022 1
Total 123
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S.B. Moran publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where S.B. Moran sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 118–127 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 121 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540 121
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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S.B. Moran D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where S.B. Moran sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 52 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182 52
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

S.B. Moran is affiliated with the University of Rhode Island in the United States. Their research spans several fields of study, primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The scientist's work covers subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Geochemistry and Petrology, Oceanography, and Environmental Chemistry.

Key research topics addressed by S.B. Moran include:

  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Coastal and Marine Management

Recent papers demonstrate a thematic emphasis on marine and coastal systems as well as environmental processes. These include:

  • "Molybdenum accumulation in sediments: A quantitative indicator of hypoxic water conditions in Narragansett Bay, RI" (2022, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science)
  • "Decrease in 230 Th in the Amundsen Basin since 2007: far-field effect of increased scavenging on the shelf?" (2020, Ocean science)
  • "Pseudopsocus rostocki, Kolbe, 1882 (Psocodea: Elipsocidae) new to Scotland" (2020, The Entomologist s monthly magazine)
  • "Thank You to Our 2019 Reviewers" (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans)
  • "Thank You to Our 2020 Reviewers" (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans)

S.B. Moran has published most frequently in the following venues:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • Ocean science
  • The Entomologist s monthly magazine

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Peter G. Brewer
  • D. P. Chambers
  • Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs
  • Robert D. Hetland
  • Kristopher B. Karnauskas

Best Publications

  • Uranium and thorium isotopic and concentration measurements by magnetic sector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

    Chuan Chou Shen;R. Lawrence Edwards;Hai Cheng;Jeffrey A. Dorale

  • An assessment of particulate organic carbon to thorium-234 ratios in the ocean and their impact on the application of 234Th as a POC flux proxy

    K.O. Buesseler;C.R. Benitez-Nelson;S.B. Moran;A. Burd

  • An intercomparison of cross-flow filtration techniques used for sampling marine colloids: Overview and organic carbon results

    K.O. Buesseler;J.E. Bauer;R.F. Chen;T.I. Eglinton

  • An increasing CO2 sink in the Arctic Ocean due to sea‐ice loss

    Nicholas R. Bates;S. Bradley Moran;Dennis A. Hansell;Jeremy T. Mathis

  • Measurement of attogram quantities of 231Pa in dissolved and particulate fractions of seawater by isotope dilution thermal ionization mass spectroscopy.

    Chuan Chou Shen;Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards;S. Bradley Moran

  • Seasonal changes in groundwater input to a well‐mixed estuary estimated using radium isotopes and implications for coastal nutrient budgets

    R. P. Kelly;S. B. Moran

  • Thorium speciation in seawater

    P.H. Santschi;J.W. Murray;M. Baskaran;C.R. Benitez-Nelson

  • Seasonal changes in POC export flux in the Chukchi Sea and implications for water column-benthic coupling in Arctic shelves

    S.B. Moran;R.P. Kelly;K. Hagstrom;J.N. Smith

  • Evidence for aggregation and export of cyanobacteria and nano-eukaryotes from the Sargasso Sea euphotic zone

    M. W. Lomas;S. B. Moran

  • Differences in seawater particulate organic carbon concentration in samples collected using small- and large-volume methods: the importance of DOC adsorption to the filter blank

    S.B Moran;M.A Charette;S.M Pike;C.A Wicklund

  • Transformations of biogenic particulates from the pelagic to the deep ocean realm

    P.W. Boyd;N.D. Sherry;J.A. Berges;J.K.B. Bishop

  • Size-fractionated 234 Th in continental shelf waters off New England: Implications for the role of colloids in oceanic trace metal scavenging

    S. Bradley Moran;Ken O. Buesseler

  • 234Th/238U disequilibrium in the central Arctic Ocean: implications for particulate organic carbon export

    S.B. Moran;K.M. Ellis;J.N. Smith

  • 230Th and 231Pa on GEOTRACES GA03, the U.S. GEOTRACES North Atlantic transect, and implications for modern and paleoceanographic chemical fluxes

    Christopher T. Hayes;Robert F. Anderson;Martin Q. Fleisher;Kuo Fang Huang

  • Below the disappearing marshes of an urban estuary: historic nitrogen trends and soil structure

    Cathleen Wigand;Charles T. Roman;Earl Davey;Mark Stolt

  • Does 234Th/238U disequilibrium provide an accurate record of the export flux of particulate organic carbon from the upper ocean?

    S. B. Moran;S. E. Weinstein;H. N. Edmonds;J. N. Smith

  • as a tracer of particulate organic carbon export in the subarctic northeast Pacific Ocean

    Matthew A. Charette;S. Bradley Moran;James K.B. Bishop

  • Accelerated drawdown of meridional overturning in the late-glacial Atlantic triggered by transient pre-H event freshwater perturbation

    Ian Robert Hall;S. B. Moran;Rainer Zahn;Rainer Zahn;Paul C. Knutz

  • Dissolved and particulate 231 Pa and 230 Th in the Atlantic Ocean: constraints on intermediate/deep water age, boundary scavenging, and 231 Pa/ 230 Th fractionation

    S.B. Moran;C.-C. Shen;H.N. Edmonds;S.E. Weinstein

  • Rates of particle scavenging and particulate organic carbon export estimated using 234Th as a tracer in the subtropical and equatorial Atlantic Ocean

    Matthew A. Charette;S.Bradley Moran

  • Arrival of the Fukushima radioactivity plume in North American continental waters

    John N. Smith;Robin M. Brown;William J. Williams;Marie Robert

Frequent Co-Authors

John N. Smith
John N. Smith Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Michael W. Lomas
Michael W. Lomas Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences
Ken O. Buesseler
Ken O. Buesseler Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Nicholas R. Bates
Nicholas R. Bates Arizona State University
Dennis A. Hansell
Dennis A. Hansell University of Miami
Matthew A. Charette
Matthew A. Charette Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Chuan-Chou Shen
Chuan-Chou Shen National Taiwan University
Jeremy T. Mathis
Jeremy T. Mathis National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jacqueline M. Grebmeier
Jacqueline M. Grebmeier University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Pere Masqué
Pere Masqué Edith Cowan University

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